Danielle Kraze’s story seemed like yet another tragic tale from the Mandalay Bay mass shooting.
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Students and staff at Mesquite Middle School have raised over $4,500 to help the families of three victims of the Las Vegas Strip shooting who worked in education.
At A Walk to Remember at Priest Elementary School, students, teachers, parents and community members wrote cards to first responders and mass shooting survivors and painted stones and decorate leis, which will be placed at the Community Healing Garden.
They got the call within 10 minutes. Within 45 minutes, crisis-trained volunteers from the Trauma Intervention Program of Southern Nevada were ready to help the victims and families of the Oct. 1 Route 91 Harvest festival shooting.
Victims of the Las Vegas shooting will have to apply to receive money raised on their behalf and might have to wait six months for payment, a victim-compensation expert told the Review-Journal.
In the aftermath of the Las Vegas attack and recent natural disasters across the country, law enforcement officials are reminding the public to be vigilant of fraudulent disaster relief funds.
Fraudulent posts to crowdfunding websites are common after highly publicized tragedies such as the Mandalay Bay shooting.
For a brief but welcome 90 minutes Wednesday, the hospital’s usual sounds were replaced by the sweet, soulful, moving, rocking notes of country music during a concert at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center for staff and patients recovering from the festival shooting.
Donors from all over the world have contributed more than $15 million so far for victims of the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting. But the sum is spread over several accounts yet to be consolidated. It’s not clear how much of the funds raised will go directly to the intended recipients.
Assorted musicians gathered Monday night at the Mercy Lounge on Cannery Row for “Nashville Gives Back: A Benefit Concert for Las Vegas.”
In the eight days since concertgoers were shot at from Mandalay Bay’s 32nd floor, United Blood Services, part of a nationwide network of blood centers in 28 states, received 3,404 local donations. Fifty-one percent were from first-time donors.
Over $10.6 million has raised so far to help pay for Arjune’s expenses, as well as those of the 488 others who were injured and 58 who died during the Oct. 1 shooting.
Star DJs Tiesto, Kaskade, Steve Aoki and more will team up Nov. 7 at Omnia in Caesars Palace for a concert to benefit victims of the Oct. 1 shooting at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt’s office is investigating charity scammers in the aftermath of the Oct. 1 shooting in Las Vegas.
The victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting will be honored Tuesday during this month’s “March On” community event in Henderson.